1. "We're American too" say the flags 6 inelegantly glued to the city apartment Windows. “我们也是美国人”——这是斜贴在这所市内公寓窗外的国旗传达出的信息。
2. Then there`s my crowning glory, inelegantly referred to in the trade as "the plug, " the part man uses to erase the errors he makes with me. 接着便是我无上的光荣了，一支铅笔若是没有“塞子”将会在交易终被认为是不优美的，部分人喜欢用橡皮擦去他用我写下的错误。
3. Picking his best book is not easy; the inelegantly titled Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973) is as good an example as you can get. 想要选出他作品中最优秀的一部并不容易，《管理：任务、责任和实践》(1973)虽然书名不太优雅，但是是市面上能买到的最好的实例书籍。
4. Three decades of effort have been expended on string theory, which includes gravity but at the expense of having the universe inelegantly sprout hidden dimensions. 而那个花了三十多年努力的“弦理论”，虽然把引力拉扯进来了，代价是让宇宙加几个不知哪冒出来的维度。
5. One of the luxuries of my last Posting in Paris was to spend a winter week in the Alps descending - generally rather inelegantly - some of the world's most spectacular slopes. 上一次得到享受还是在巴黎的时候，虽然技术不佳，但我在阿尔卑斯山滑道上度过了冬日中的一周——那里拥有一些世界上最为壮观的滑道。
